Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
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More quotes by Hosea Ballou
- Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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- Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.